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Sieyès
[ sye-yes ]
noun
- Em·ma·nu·el Jo·seph [e-m, a, -n, y, -, el, zhaw-, zef], Abbé Sieyès, 1748–1836, French priest and revolutionist.
Sieyès
/ sjejɛs /
noun
- SieyèsEmmanuel Joseph17481836MFrenchPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: political theoristRELIGION: clergyman Emmanuel Joseph (ɛmanɥɛl ʒozɛf), called Abbé Sieyès. 1748–1836, French statesman, political theorist, and churchman, who became prominent during the Revolution following the publication of his pamphlet Qu'est-ce que le tiers état? (1789). He was instrumental in bringing Napoleon I to power (1799)
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Napoleon was heir to the French Revolution, not Abbé Sieyes, a serial writer of constitutions that were never adopted for long.
Like the Abbe Sieyes, Mr. Paine had completely mastered the science of government, which was in fact extremely simple.
They took the hint, and divided the spoil; Sieyes taking the lion's share.
Sieyes was greatly alarmed at the generosity of some of Napoleon's acts.
It is not to him, but to the Abbe Sieyes, that I address this chapter.
The Abbé Sieyes was decidedly the most able man of the Executive.
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